Method for embroidering in several colors with a single needle



METHOD FOR EMBROIDERING IN SEVERAL COLORS WITH A SINGLE NEEDLE FIE-U;

Filed Oct. 3, 1935 at. 9, 1934. c. KLEINERT I Patented Oct. 9, 1934 PATET OFFICE Charlotte Kieinert,

l riedrichsthal, near Niederbarnim, Germany Application October 3,

in Germany 1 Claim.

The invention relates to a method for continuous embroidering in several colors by means of a single needle. In order to carry out embroidering in several colors hitherto a pattern 5 was embroidered in one color whereupon another pattern was carried out with a second color in a second operation. Contrary hereto, two threads of different colors are, according to the invention threaded through the eye of a needle and a twocolor pattern is produced in a single operation.

It is already known to employ for embroidering needles through the eyes of which two threads are threaded. When embroidering with such a needle in known manner it is only possible to apply two like colored threads or two differently colored threads side by side on the embroidery support, without the threads of different colors being embroidered separately to form a pattern, as according to the present invention. It has likewise been proposed, to employ for shuttle embroidery material composed of fancy twisted thread, but by this method it is not possible to obtain embroideries as produced according to the invention.

The method according to the invention consists in that the differently colored threads threaded into the needle are first drawn both together through the support from the back whereupon the threads are separated on the support in such a manner that the first thread forms a'straight line, whereas the second thread forms a bent line, and the needle is then passed through the support according to the pattern and again passed upwardly from the back below the bend formed by the second thread on the support so that the bend in the second thread is secured on the support by the two threads again passed in upward direction.

The method according to'the invention may be employed for hand embroidery and also for mechanically producing embroidery in two or more different colors when in the latter instance the machine must be subjected to corresponding alterations.

Several patterns produced by the method according to the invention are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing Figs. 1 to 4 show different patterns produced by two threads of difierent colors, one thread being shown in full lines and the other in dash lines.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a needle with two eyes with two threads one threaded through each of the eyes.

1933, Serial No. 691,950 March 6, 1933 In the pattern illustrated in Fig. 1 the needle has been passed through the embroidery support from the back at the point 1, whereupon for example the red thread 2 is laid in a straight line on the upper surface of the support and for example the blue thread 3 is then laid spread at an angle from this red thread. The needle has then been passed through the support from above at the point 4 moved along the back and returned from the back at 5, whereupon the procedure has been repeated in the same manner. Thus, the pattern shown in Fig. 1 has been produced.

Figs. 2 to 4 show other patterns produced according to the invention and which vary in different manners and can be completed to form difierent patterns, such as circles, ellipses, quadrats, flowers, leaves and the like.

The method according to the invention may be carried out on all kinds of fabric and with any embroidering material, such as wool, silk, bast, metal thread and so forth, and be employed both for producing embroidery, and also articles of clothing, aprons, covers, cushions, curtains, hand bags and the like, also as hemstitch.

The chief advantage of the invention consists in the saving of an operation and in the great saving in material. When employing thick supporting fabrics needles are preferably employed which have two eyes situated one behind the other and displaced through 90 as shown in Fig. 5.

I claim:-

Method for continuously embroidering in several colors by means of a single needle, consisting in threading differently colored threads in the needle, in passing these threads jointly through the embroidery supporting fabric from the back, in separating the threads on the upper surface of the fabric so that one thread forms a straight line and the other a bent line, in passing the needle through the fabric from the front according to the pattern, and in again passing the needle according to the pattern through the fabric from the back below the bend formed on the surface of the fabric by the second thread so that the bend in the second thread is secured on the supporting fabric by the two threads again passed through the fabric from the back.

CHARLOTTE KLEINERT. 

